Volunteer

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A White person with Cancer has a 1 in 5 chance
of finding a bone marrow match to save their life

An Asian or Black person with Cancer has a 1 in 100,000 chance
of finding a bone marrow match to save their life

Why?

Percentage of Ethnic Groups in the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry

White 51%
Black 7%
Hispanic 7%
Asian 6%
Other 2%
Unknown 27%

Cancer patients have a higher chance of finding their match within the same racial background

Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association

Bone Marrow Drive
Sat., May 13th 2006
12pm-4pm
Calvary Baptist Church
755 8th St., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Walking distance from the Chinatown Metro Station

Registration is FREE
No Needles for Registration
Just a sample of your cheek cells from inside your mouth will be transferred onto a Q-tip
Must be between the Ages of 18 and 60 to participate

If you are unable to attend the drive but still want to join the registry,
please call 1-800-MARROW2 or visit www.marrow.org

Please help my cousin Christine Pechera who is Filipino.
She has a rare form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Her only chance of survival is a marrow transplant from a donor whose marrow matches hers.
So far, a worldwide search has not turned up a single match.
You may be the one-in-a-million person whose marrow type matches Christine’s.
You may be the one person who can save her life.
http://www.savechristine.com

I finally found the time to make it to the Volunteer Orientation for the Whitman-Walker Clinic. I’ve been wanting to attend that meeting since September. But due to my crazy work schedule and a 4 week trip to Argentina, I had to postpone my plans until now. It took some shift swapping too but nevertheless, I finally got the ball rolling! Woo hoo!

I plan to volunteer my time to an AIDS clinic and get a better idea about the public health sector. Now if I can only mold my work schedule to allow me to make it to one of their introductory meetings, I’m set. I plan to tackle this after my trip to Argentina.